SABBATH, CONTEMPLATIVE TIME, AND LITURGICAL LISTENING

Sabbath, Contemplative Time, and Liturgical Listening

As we explore listening practices in global Catholicism, we have an opportunity to learn from spiritual traditions and their wisdom about stillness, receptivity, rest, and attention.This article focuses on Sabbath in dialogue with Jewish Emergency Gear trays and Christian writings, particularly with regard to the dignity of work, sacred time, and O

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Cloning and Functional Analysis of Histones H3 and H4 in Nuclear Shaping during Spermatogenesis of the Chinese Mitten Crab, Eriocheir sinensis.

During spermatogenesis in most animals, the basic proteins associated with DNA are continuously changing and somatic-typed histones are partly replaced by sperm-specific histones, which are then successively replaced by transition proteins and protamines.With the replacement of sperm nuclear basic proteins, nuclei progressively undergo chromatin co

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Beach erosion and nest site selection by the leatherback sea turtle Dermochelys coriacea (Testudines: Dermochelyidae) and implications for management practices at Playa Gandoca, Costa Rica

Leatherback sea turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) nest on dynamic, erosion-prone beaches.Erosive processes and resulting nest loss have long been presumed to be a hindrance to clutch survival.In order to better understand how leatherbacks cope with unstable nesting beaches, I investigated the role of beach erosion in leatherback nest site selection at

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